In my opinion it can't be done and any attempt would be futile, the amount of people that participate in online forums like this one are dwarfed by the amount of people that play mw3 overall, COD is a juggernaut and the only way it will change is if another developer designs a better game.

The issues in this game only annoy the hardcore shooters, the average player couldn't give a monkey's , they just play it for fun. Talk of  boycotts, lawsuits etc is pointless (imo) as there are more people willing to accept games as they are.

Would like to say good luck in your "plan" but I wouldn't mean it, I like call of duty, when I stop enjoying it, I'll stop playing.

Websites won't work, the only way to get the word out there is via media such as facebook/twitter, but I doubt you'll find much support there.

not really to many kids wouldnt happen unless age ratings were inforced and made it illegal to buy an 18 for under 18s

A boycott would not work for two reasons.

1) Activision already has your money for the game, they could care less if you continue to play it or not. IfYour $60 is already in their pocket, stopping playing MW3 doesn't effect the bottom line for Activision, and therefore they wouldn't care.

2) Not everyone would join you. I for one am having a blast playing MW3. I have the best availible internet in my area, and I occasionally pull host, but for the most part my experience is pretty solid. Sure I lag, but its a video game and a lag death might be annoying, but it really isn't a huge deal. Although these forums are filled with the bulk of the whiners and complainers, there are so many people that share my point of view on this game. There are people enjoying MW3 that would not join your protest.

So basically a boycott would accomplish nothing. MW3 is going to continue to work how it does now. If thats bad for you, then I guess you can move on to another game. Not playing MW3 has no effect on Activision, and really wouldn't accomplish anything, and this whole idea really wouldn't do anything to accomplish the goals you want to acheive.

Well to boycott is to cause action by not buying a service or product. Sure we could boycott the DLC's if you havent already bought them. But we cant unbuy the game. So No we cant boycott IW for MW3

I  agree with what a few others have said on her in that I don't think a boycott will work.  First off this forum is really just a drop in the bucket when comapred to all COD players.  It is made up of a few longtime veteran players who have been doing this for awhile and then another group that aren't active unless they can whine about something. 

Also I go along with what a few have said on here that a boycott now wouldn't do a whole lot.  The money has been spent and damage done.  Now can you hurt them by not buying future titles and DLC? Sure but it would take alot more than a handful on the forum.  Unfortunately I don't see that happening even with the best efforts cause honestly prolly 80% of worlds players don't give a ****, and on the forums you prolly have the top 2-3% that do.

I think in order to get real change someone from another company is going to have to step up.  There has to be a challenge.  That hasn't happened yet.  Yeah BF has made strides but still they haven't been able to touch COD.  As far as a "fast paced fps shooter"  BF is just not there.  Not saying it's a bad game I haven't played it had alot of friends give it try and said ehhhh it's ok but it's not COD.

So IMHO until that day comes where a challenger truely comes to take the throne.  I think it's going to be just more of the usual whether you think it's good bad or in between.

This thread does contain a lot of solid points as to why a boycott of mw3 likely wouldn't work, however it does get the gears of thought working as follows:

A great many gamers (including myself) visit vid game sites like Gamespot, IGN, Destructoid, etc to read game reviews, thus assist us, even steer us into what they find as being worthwhile game/s..

It goes without saying that such game reviews can hold great impact on whether or not a game might be purchased on a large scale. The Review writers nearly always put together critical and comprehensive review/s on nearly every game that hits, or is about to it, the market.

More importantly, and this is what my post is suggesting, is if gamers really want to put pressure on game developers then perhaps go through the gamer Reviewers and their respective site to do this.

IE: If Destructoid was to post an article on the massive MW3 lag compensation issue, or any other significant mw3 issue, you can be fairly certain that prior to the next game release the game developer/s might put considerably more effort into improving or eliminating the issue prior to release. That might be the best we can all hope for.

Bottom line: Perhaps contact the Vid game websites and their Reviewers and ask them to comment, or critize, ongoing and unacceptable performance by game developers and their games.

It is my opinion that well known Game Reviewers and their host site/s would have considerable clout in the Developers den.

dont let yourself get shot down mate

few years ago in a country in financial ruins, a lil man with a funny moustache used to give speaches ect in cellers an such like places. over time the audiences got bigger an bigger, fast forward a few years he was in complete charge of a whole country with his own elite army. few more years an he got himself a mahoosive empire he was on top of the world.

few more years an he was responsible for 30million dead, destruction of 100s 1000s of cities [guestimated numbers].

one man can make a difference....................[who knows what i jus watched on tv ?]

gotta start somewhere, an todays media comms is much much more effective than 1930s germany

if iw ect ect saw mw was dead for 1 week, it would be noticed, very much so

i would support it for sure, however my personal opinion is it would be a to little too late as i would imagine treyarch will release in nov this year, which i eagerly await, an i wouldnt bet against iw next release coinciding with the next gen consol release. meaning more hype more promises ect ect an i recon this will all be blown over by then

respawn............we are waiting

Lol contact 60 minutes and get them to do a big expose...

I understand what you are trying to do here so this is my input. When trying to make a major change for the good of the people (in this case the community of COD), you need to have a criteria that is reasonable and sound. You also need a large base of supporting followers whom you can prove will make an action if this criteria is not met. A good way to make a change is to get a petition of at least 500,000 COD players to sign, not just via email or forum, but an actual signature a petition stating the terms of what you are requesting. In this petition you must also state what you are requesting, the time frame in which you demand it by and an appropriate action if it is not met.

No onto the demand you want to make.

Stating that you want dedicated servers is not a reasonable criteria as if you reaserched the issue you will find that dedicated servers is not the answer. Dedicated servers have their own problem but the biggest issue is that they are extremely costly to setup in the case of COD. Activision has also stated that they will NOT install a dedicated server system due to the major costs in which they claim will cost a large sum (around in billions of dollars) to setup and maintain.

You need to find a solution, even if not a full solution, that they can use to "fix" the issue you have.

The Action taken afterhand if the criteria is not met by the deadline must also be relevant to the company and situation that you can implement and is also believable. For instance, stating that these following people will not purchase the next installment of COD would hurt Activisions pocket but Activision know their fan base and have seen how many times people have gone back on their words. If say 500,000 people said they aren't going to buy the next game they probably will factor the fact that at least 200,000 of those people actually will buy the game because they will make it look enticing.

Another scenario which has been stated is to refuse to play for a day. This would not work unless it was public and people (other than the COD community) cared about it enough to "help" out.

The best way to scare Activision into doing something however is to approach Sony, Steam & Microsoft. ATM Microsoft is out of the question due to the contract they have with Activision, but if you could convince Sony or Steam to deny access to the COD servers, even for a day, you would probably make a big enough fuss that something would happen. Just remember what Wikipedia and other sites did about the SOPA bill. Everyone in the world knew about it and it made the bill look realy bad (I'm not expressing my opinion on the bill). Imagine a similar case in COD. Every person that tries to log into the COD servers a message comes up stating that Activision is not giving the players a fair go. Just think about how much outrage it would cause against Activision.

Anyways just my opinion and sorry for the massive speech